Regex Replace For Wordpress Shortcodes

Question

I have a wordpress site with a ton of posts with the following kind of markup:

<div class="comments container">[song_comments song_slug="this time"]</div>

I want a regex search/replace pattern which will search for any string like

<div class="comments container">[song_comments XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</div>

...and replace it with an empty string.

So the left delimiter is

<div class="comments container">[song_comments

...and the right delimiter is

</div>

With everything between being variable.

Any ideas on how to do this?

You want to remove the whole div or just [......... part ? — HamZa
– HamZa, Commented Jun 19, 2013 at 23:20

HamZa · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-20 00:05:49Z

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Use this:

$html = preg_replace(
    '~<div class=["\']comments container["\']>\[song_comments[^<]++</div>~',
    '', $html);

If you are interested by:

preg_replace

www.regular-expressions.info

edited Jun 20, 2013 at 0:05

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answered Jun 19, 2013 at 23:47

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jchwebdev Over a year ago

THANKS! One of those skills---like card tricks, I keep meaning to master in order to dazzle people like me. What usually gets me stumped are special characters like brackets and hairpins. Gotta study this. I only need it once in a great while, but when I need it... I NEED it. Big cheers!

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